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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fleury find beautiful in the morning in Chapter 30?

2. Where is the Collector during the attack by the sepoys in Chapter 30?

3. What beliefs of the Magistrate have been eroded because of the siege?

4. What did the ladies battle over in the auction?

5. What has happened to Hari during his confinement in the tiger house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What condition does the Collector find Hari in when he visits him in the tiger house?

2. What has happened to the Collector's leather goods and clothing and notepaper?

3. At the end of Chapter 29 what does the Collector read about in the phrenology book and what does he eat on the way downstairs?

4. What are some of the desperate measures the people take to obtain food?

5. What does Lucy begin to do to cheer herself up?

6. When Fleury visits the Collector he thinks he has cholera but what does Dr. McNab say the Collector has?

7. What ingenious idea does Harry come up with to deal with the thick vegetation encroaching on the edges of the defenses?

8. Who does Dr. McNab ask to look after the Collector and what transpires during that time?

9. What does the collector do when he finds out what Rayne has been up to?

10. What table is used for the altar for the Wright baby's Baptism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe the friendship which has developed between Louise and Miriam. What do they discuss together? How are they similar? how different?

2) Describe Miriam''s relationship with the Collector and with Dr. McNab.

3) Describe the episode where the Chockchafer's cover Lucy and she strips naked. How do all the characters react to this incident?

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) Two babies are born in the beginning of August. Which baby survives? What is it named? Who becomes its godfather?

2) What does the Collector do that is an affront to social protocol? This action by the Collector results in which character disappearing?

3) What clever suggestion does Harry come up with to help defend the Residency? Describe how it is implemented.

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1) Describe the auction of the remaining food goods. Who bids? What scheme does Rayne carry out? What does the Collector do?

2) What foolhardy thing does Dr. Dunstaple do to show Dr. McNab up? What is the outcome? Give as many details as possible.

3) Describe the incident with Chloe, the sepoy, Fleury and Ram.

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

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